John Shelton Reed Quotes

The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it. it just might split at the seams. It doesn't look much like it used to, but it's more comfortable, and there's probably a lot of wear left in it.

John Shelton Reed

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
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  • Birth: 1942

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Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Joey Adams

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The first core value we have is that everyone deserves a Cinderella experience. And I have experienced a Cinderella experience. And I really believe that most people who've come to Rent the Runway have had a Cinderella experience.

Jennifer Hyman

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I love 'House' - I love 'House' so much.

Angela Kinsey

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Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.

Sufjan Stevens

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I wanted a choker, and couldn't find one I liked, so I thought, 'I'll just make it.'

Sofia Boutella

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If you can't relax during your interview, then nothing you do to prepare will matter. Being yourself is essential to the selection process, and interviewers will feel it if you're too nervous. Showing fear or anxiety appears weak compared to a relaxed smile and genuine confidence.

Travis Bradberry

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The love affair between black folks and the Clintons has been going on for a long time. It began back in 1992, when Bill Clinton was running for president. He threw on some shades and played the saxophone on 'The Arsenio Hall Show.' It seems silly in retrospect, but many of us fell for that.

Michelle Alexander

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When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh.

Missy Elliott

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Maggie is my sister-in-law, married to my brother David. She is a defense attorney who devotes 25 percent of her practice to pro bono wrongful-incarceration cases.

Lisa Lutz

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I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.

Joni Eareckson Tada

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For the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten.

Davy Crockett

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